Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans: A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and a Proto-Culture (Trends in Linguistics: Studies ... Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [Tilsm]) [Hardcover]

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze (Author), Vjaceslav V. Ivanov (Author), Nichols Johanna (Translator)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1995 | ISBN-10: 3110147289 | ISBN-13: 978-3110147285 | Edition: 2

The authors propse a revision of views on a number of central issues of Indo-European studies. Based on findings of typology, they suggest an analysis of the phonological system of Proto-Indo-European (the "glottalic" theory); they offer novel assumptions about the relative chronology of changes in PIE vowels and laryngeals. Their conclusions are compared with data from Paroto-Kartvelian. In the second part of the book, a semantically organized presentation of material from the lexicon is combined with analyses of the use of forms and formulae in a broadly defined cultural context. Again similarities with properties of primarily Kartvelian and Semitic are described, and extended close contacts with these language families are postulated. This necessarily leads to a proposal to place the hypothetical Urheimat of the Indo-Europeans in the region south of the Caucasus. Volume I and II of the original Russian edition have been combined in the English version as Part I; the bibliography and indexes are published as Part II.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1128 pages
• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter; 2 edition (December 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3110147289
• ISBN-13: 978-3110147285
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.5 x 3 inches
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